Posted By
seff
on 2023-10-28
06:11:20
 |  Re: PS/2 mouse on Plus/4
@Litwr IMHO the biggest limitation was that the C264 line was conceived with a fragmented memory capacity:
C116 (16), C232 (32), C264 (64) and C364 (64). At that time Sinclair ZX Spectrum kept selling with 48 kB and older models were EASILY upgradable. As a result (as we all know  ) software houses produced software 99% for the common denominator.
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Why such fragmentation? This is a question for Michael Tomczyk.
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Why not upgradable? The C116 and C16 could have been designed with RAM sockets instead. I know they literally saved every cent. Why wasn't the memory expansion slot designed for RAM expansion? These two questions are for Bil Herd.
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